Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.

Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

Though the Balkan allies had fought together against the common enemy, that was not enough to overcome their mutual rivalries.

Though Havana, which had become the third-largest city in the Americas, was to enter an era of sustained development and closening ties with North America during this period, the British occupation of the city proved short-lived.

Though Gauss had up to that point been financially supported by his stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve support.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Though Chiang had achieved status abroad as a world leader, his government deteriorated as the result of corruption and inflation.

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.

Though not as commercially successful in the U. S., Squeeze had American chart hits with " Tempted ", " Hourglass " and " 853-5937 ", and they have a dedicated following there and continue to attract new fans.

Though not an instant success, the album gained a steady following in France with hits such as " Bongo Bong " and " Clandestino ", and the album eventually earned the Best World Music Album award in 1999's Victoires de la Musique awards.

Though primarily a keyboardist, Junie composed or co-wrote several of the band's hits at the height of their popularity and served as a lead vocalist, producer, and arranger on many songs for the collective.

" Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R & B hits while at Atlantic, Burke never broke through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's " Down in the Valley " for 1965's Otis Blue.

Though both Liberator and Universal produced minor hits and the latter also spawned their first Top 20 hit in five years with " Walking On The Milky Way ", McCluskey retired the OMD name in late 1996, due to waning public interest in an 80's synth band at the height of the guitar-based Britpop era.

Though the Hall & Oates original ( recorded in a Memphis-soul style ) was never released as a single, it remains a fan favorite on the duo's greatest hits albums and was featured on their Apollo Theater CD in 1985, and is frequently featured in their live set to this day.

Though their subsequent releases did not garner similar commercial success as their debut, the duo released a well-received greatest hits album in 1999.

Though by the end of 1987 Orion had slipped to fourth overall in box office receipts, the company had won seven Oscars and scored box office hits with Platoon, RoboCop, and No Way Out.

Though the films ranged from moderate to smash hits, Harlow's acting ability was damned by critics as awful and was mocked.

Though the label had enjoyed some early hits with The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & The M. G.

Though his. 282 batting average was low by the standards he would set later, Heilmann ranked among the American League leaders with 30 doubles ( seventh best ), 73 RBIs ( seventh best ) and 43 extra base hits ( eighth best ).

Though the trend faded it did not stop Latinos from having hits in the mainstream market.

Though this album neither produced any major hits nor had strong sales, it did feature the Bonnie-led " Don't It Drive You Crazy ," which would become a cult hit in the UK as part of the Rare Groove phenomenon.

Though boogaloo did not become mainstream nationwide until later in the decade, two early Top 20 hits came in 1963: Mongo Santamaría's performance of the Herbie Hancock piece Watermelon Man and Ray Barretto's El Watusi.

" Though it never cracked the Top 10 on the U. S. singles charts ( reaching # 12 in 1974 ), it became one of the band's most enduring hits.

Though this version of the group had minor hits from 1977 – 79, they failed to hit the pop Top 40 for two years and parted ways with Thom Bell.

Though Reasonable Doubt didn't immediately attain commercial success, it spawned several hits, a close relationship with The Notorious B. I. G.

Though all unsuccessful, the pilots became hits via the Internet among university students.

Though Libreville was producing enough pan-African hits in the 80s to rival cities like Abidjan and Johannesburg for popular music, the end of the decade saw the music scene die out.

Though the record did not score any radio hits as big as " The Coloring Song " or " More Power to Ya ," the album was massively successful in the still-new world of Christian rock: It became the No. 1 Christian album in the country in February 1984, dislodging Amy Grant's Age to Age, which had held the top spot for more than a year.

Though they went on to have a total of eleven hits on the Hot 100, the beginning of the end for the group came when Troxel had to fulfill his obligation to go active in the Navy.

Though some of his songs were becoming hits for other people, he hadn't any huge hits of his own recordings.

Though Säätiö performed many of Alanko's old hits, the arrangements were radically revamped to fit with their unique acoustic sound, heavily featuring the avant-garde accordion sound of Kimmo Pohjonen, a successful artist in his own right.